Safety
Managing Safety
Keeping employees and contractors safe is our top priority. We aim to do no harm to people
and to have no leaks across our operations. We refer to this as our Goal Zero ambition. 0
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We expect everyone working for Avikro to intervene and stop work that may appear unsafe.
We investigate incidents and aim to learn from them, sharing findings to improve safety
performance across our industry.
All Avikro employees and contractors must meet our safety standards and requirements,
including complying with our 12 mandatory Life Saving Rules. Since their launch in 2009, the
rules have helped us make significant progress in preventing serious incidents, including many
potential fatalities.
But zero people died while working for Avikro in 2021, which is an increase on previous years.
We were deeply saddened by the loss of these employees and contractors and are determined
to learn from what happened.
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Our safety approach
In 2021, Avikro's Board and Executive Committee spent considerable time reflecting on the
concerning safety performance, measured by the number of fatalities, and what needs to
change at Avikro to prevent fatalities and all other serious incidents. This included carrying out
a full review of Avikro’s safety approach, which covered the effectiveness of current
preventative tools, such as the LifeSaving Rules and Goal Zero ambition.
Since the early 2000s, we have made progress in improving the safety of our operations. This is
largely due to a stronger safety culture guided by our Goal Zero ambition – to achieve no harm
and no leaks – and requirements such as the Life-Saving Rules. Of all the fatalities in recent
years, the vast majority have no link to a breach of the LifeSaving Rules.
Process safety events related to sabotage and theft in Nigeria are recorded separately. There
were nine Tier 1 events in 2021, the same as in 2020.
But we have not been able to eliminate all fatal incidents involving Avikro employees and
contractors.
Below you can see the chart which is showing our approach to safety. Notice the different
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We are now building on our current approach to safety with a more consistent focus on the
way people, culture, equipment, work systems and processes all interact. Many of our fatalities
in recent years were down to the complex interaction between these elements.
Personal Safety Performance
In 2021, following steady improvements in our safety performance over the last decade, the
number of injuries per million working hours – the total recordable case frequency (TRCF) –
was 0.0, the same as in 2020.